Rate My Professor Minran Liu

Liu's scholarly contributions include the forthcoming monograph State Identity Politics and the Making of East Asia: Perspectives from China and Japan (Routledge, 2026), adapted from his doctoral work. Notable journal articles are 'Imagined Weakness: The Peaceful Riser Identity and Beijing's Policy Overcorrection in the South China Sea' (International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 2025, with Edward Sing Yue Chan) and 'Identity-Policy Discrepancy: Crisis Perception, Third-Order Change and the Shifting Foreign Policy Trajectories of China and Japan toward Northeast Asia' (Contemporary Politics, 2024). Additional works comprise the book chapter 'Confidence Building, Early Warning and Fact Finding in Sino-ROK Disputes: Can Preventive Diplomacy Work in a Bilateral Context?' (2022, with Jingdong Yuan) and his translation of Charles C. Ragin's Comparative Methods into Chinese (2022). At UQ, he serves as Integrity Officer and supervises PhD candidates on topics including Chinese economic statecraft and Cold War cinema. Liu holds positions as Member-at-Large on the Executive Committee of the International Studies Association Asia-Pacific, Adjunct Fellow at the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney, and Honorary Member of the University of Sydney's China Studies Centre. He frequently offers expert commentary on international relations to outlets such as ABC, SBS, Sky News, CNA, The Straits Times, China Daily, and Het Financieele Dagblad.